Professor Jin Canrong's words have caused an uproar recently, so I will take a comment I made a long time ago as my attitude towards it!
I want to look at ancient Greek texts (artifacts) from 500 years ago, 1000 years ago, 1500 years ago, 2000 years ago, do they have them? If not, how can it prove that they have such a splendid culture?
What is the concept that Aristotle's work alone has 3 million words of work handed down, what is this concept? The Christian classic "Old Testament" is only 1.5 million words, the "New Testament" is about 200,000 words, and there are still many texts that are different from the ancient version, and Christian civilization has not been interrupted, and ancient Greek civilization has been interrupted, how can its classics be preserved so well? ?
It was simply impossible before paper was introduced to Europe.
Chinese civilization is the light of world thought!!!